Agile Jobs in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 8,918 15,873 24,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.08% 17.67% 28.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.24% 21.05% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,453 10,477 13,651
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -6.72% +3.08%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in England

Agile
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Agile in England.

Salary trend for Agile in England

Agile
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 3,008 £85,000 +6.25% 3,292
North of England -4 2,126 £57,500 -0.80% 1,201
North West -3 1,661 £57,560 -4.07% 701
South East -2 1,452 £60,000 - 982
Midlands -3 980 £55,000 - 688
West Midlands 0 635 £57,500 - 455
South West -3 560 £57,500 - 521
East of England -2 418 £52,500 -7.89% 366
Yorkshire -6 387 £58,100 +1.04% 360
East Midlands -5 342 £47,683 -9.18% 222
North East -14 78 £51,250 -6.82% 148
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 562 (6.30%) Confluence
2 257 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
3 190 (2.13%) Apache
4 137 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 108 (1.21%) CMS
6 81 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 61 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
8 39 (0.44%) IIS
9 32 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 30 (0.34%) WordPress
11 24 (0.27%) Appian
12 18 (0.20%) Drupal
13 15 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 15 (0.17%) JBoss
14 14 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
15 13 (0.15%) nginx
15 13 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 12 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 10 (0.11%) OpenStack
18 7 (0.078%) SAS
Applications
1 271 (3.04%) Simulink
2 256 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 71 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 55 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 51 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 45 (0.50%) Trello
8 26 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 21 (0.24%) Adobe XD
10 19 (0.21%) Maya
11 14 (0.16%) Sketch
12 7 (0.078%) InVision
12 7 (0.078%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 6 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.034%) Productboard
14 3 (0.034%) UserZoom
15 2 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.022%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.022%) Photoshop
15 2 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 96 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 65 (0.73%) Teamcenter
4 61 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 39 (0.44%) thinkFolio
6 25 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
7 24 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 24 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 23 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
9 18 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 16 (0.18%) Shopify
11 11 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
12 9 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
12 9 (0.10%) SAP IBP
13 7 (0.078%) Orchestrade
14 6 (0.067%) Adobe Campaign
14 6 (0.067%) Elite 3E
15 5 (0.056%) Magento
15 5 (0.056%) PeopleSoft Financials
16 4 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2,325 (26.07%) AWS
2 2,215 (24.84%) Azure
3 1,031 (11.56%) GCP
4 601 (6.74%) Serverless
5 467 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
6 417 (4.68%) Power Platform
7 390 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
8 381 (4.27%) SaaS
9 245 (2.75%) dbt
10 221 (2.48%) GitHub
11 220 (2.47%) Pulumi
12 201 (2.25%) Amazon S3
13 198 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
14 142 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
15 138 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
16 136 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
17 135 (1.51%) Snowflake
18 133 (1.49%) PaaS
19 103 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
20 102 (1.14%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 798 (8.95%) Broadband
2 451 (5.06%) DNS
3 432 (4.84%) VPN
4 82 (0.92%) Firewall
5 49 (0.55%) WAN
6 44 (0.49%) HTTP
7 38 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 32 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 28 (0.31%) Wireless
10 25 (0.28%) Internet
10 25 (0.28%) Network Security
10 25 (0.28%) SSL
11 23 (0.26%) DHCP
12 19 (0.21%) SAN
13 18 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
14 17 (0.19%) LAN
15 13 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (0.13%) 5G
16 12 (0.13%) Multicast
16 12 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 460 (5.16%) NoSQL
3 430 (4.82%) Relational Database
4 340 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 280 (3.14%) Data Lake
6 275 (3.08%) Power BI
7 252 (2.83%) RDBMS
8 245 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
9 236 (2.65%) MySQL
10 233 (2.61%) Apache Iceberg
11 229 (2.57%) Dremio
12 216 (2.42%) Apache Arrow
13 194 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
14 185 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 180 (2.02%) MongoDB
16 147 (1.65%) DynamoDB
17 127 (1.42%) Apache Ignite
18 79 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
19 72 (0.81%) Tableau
20 69 (0.77%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1,249 (14.01%) JIRA
2 525 (5.89%) Git
3 316 (3.54%) Selenium
4 308 (3.45%) GitLab
5 274 (3.07%) Bitbucket
6 260 (2.92%) SonarQube
7 258 (2.89%) Jenkins
8 257 (2.88%) Maven
9 242 (2.71%) Cucumber
10 231 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
11 215 (2.41%) Jaeger
12 132 (1.48%) Rational DOORS
13 106 (1.19%) JUnit
14 67 (0.75%) Artifactory
15 63 (0.71%) Cypress.io
16 57 (0.64%) Visual Studio
17 55 (0.62%) Postman
18 52 (0.58%) JMeter
19 51 (0.57%) Mockito
20 49 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 2,970 (33.30%) Finance
2 2,071 (23.22%) Social Skills
3 1,627 (18.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,576 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
5 901 (10.10%) Banking
6 604 (6.77%) Law
7 563 (6.31%) Presentation Skills
8 490 (5.49%) Front Office
9 415 (4.65%) Retail
10 367 (4.12%) Marketing
11 308 (3.45%) Public Sector
12 275 (3.08%) Aerospace
13 258 (2.89%) Automotive
14 242 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
15 238 (2.67%) Investment Banking
16 232 (2.60%) Legal
17 231 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
18 179 (2.01%) Manufacturing
19 111 (1.24%) Financial Institution
19 111 (1.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,072 (23.23%) Senior
2 1,748 (19.60%) Developer
3 1,400 (15.70%) Software Engineer
4 1,084 (12.16%) Lead
5 704 (7.89%) Systems Engineer
6 669 (7.50%) Analyst
7 619 (6.94%) Software Developer
8 573 (6.43%) Architect
9 521 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 365 (4.09%) Senior Developer
11 342 (3.83%) Team Leader
12 279 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
13 268 (3.01%) Business Analyst
14 265 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
15 262 (2.94%) Project Manager
16 261 (2.93%) Python Engineer
17 247 (2.77%) Java Engineer
18 241 (2.70%) Embedded Engineer
19 222 (2.49%) Release Engineer
20 218 (2.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,024 (11.48%) React
2 929 (10.42%) .NET
3 567 (6.36%) CSS
4 554 (6.21%) Node.js
5 548 (6.14%) HTML
6 492 (5.52%) Kafka
7 448 (5.02%) REST
8 440 (4.93%) Spring
9 412 (4.62%) AngularJS
10 404 (4.53%) Middleware
11 401 (4.50%) Spring Boot
12 394 (4.42%) RESTful
13 290 (3.25%) Redux
14 241 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
15 233 (2.61%) JPA
16 225 (2.52%) OpenTelemetry
17 223 (2.50%) .NET Core
18 217 (2.43%) Pandas
19 207 (2.32%) Vue
20 189 (2.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 891 (9.99%) Product Ownership
2 643 (7.21%) Cyberattack
3 585 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
4 366 (4.10%) Fixed Income
5 303 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
6 287 (3.22%) Management Information System
7 277 (3.11%) Derivative
8 275 (3.08%) Cloud Native
9 273 (3.06%) Equities
10 261 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 252 (2.83%) Hedge funds
12 237 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
13 183 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
14 176 (1.97%) Mobile App
15 166 (1.86%) Algorithms
16 141 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
17 132 (1.48%) Onboarding
18 104 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
18 104 (1.17%) Virtual Team
19 91 (1.02%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,152 (12.92%) Linux
2 538 (6.03%) Android
3 258 (2.89%) Unix
4 228 (2.56%) Windows
5 101 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 44 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 19 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
8 13 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.15%) zOS
9 10 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.11%) VMS
10 9 (0.10%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.090%) Windows Vista
12 4 (0.045%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.034%) Debian
13 3 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.022%) CentOS
14 2 (0.022%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.022%) Solaris
15 1 (0.011%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,148 (24.09%) Software Engineering
2 1,981 (22.21%) CI/CD
3 1,931 (21.65%) DevOps
4 1,824 (20.45%) Mentoring
5 1,517 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
6 1,426 (15.99%) Roadmaps
7 1,104 (12.38%) Scrum
8 1,075 (12.05%) Microservices
9 977 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 950 (10.65%) Artificial Intelligence
11 921 (10.33%) SDLC
12 889 (9.97%) Containerisation
13 864 (9.69%) Test Automation
14 836 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
15 830 (9.31%) Systems Engineering
16 801 (8.98%) Project Management
17 799 (8.96%) Analytics
18 757 (8.49%) User Experience
19 747 (8.38%) Waterfall
20 732 (8.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,305 (25.85%) Python
2 2,126 (23.84%) Java
3 1,690 (18.95%) JavaScript
4 1,291 (14.48%) SQL
5 975 (10.93%) Go
6 972 (10.90%) TypeScript
7 794 (8.90%) C++
8 779 (8.74%) C#
9 638 (7.15%) MATLAB
10 294 (3.30%) Rust
11 273 (3.06%) Bash
12 178 (2.00%) PowerShell
13 137 (1.54%) PHP
14 109 (1.22%) C
15 101 (1.13%) Ada
16 58 (0.65%) R
17 45 (0.50%) Apex Code
18 43 (0.48%) Shell Script
19 41 (0.46%) Kotlin
19 41 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,064 (23.14%) Degree
2 1,240 (13.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 1,069 (11.99%) Security Cleared
4 749 (8.40%) DV Cleared
5 560 (6.28%) AWS Certification
6 328 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 302 (3.39%) SC Cleared
8 251 (2.81%) PhD
9 222 (2.49%) Chartered Engineer
10 206 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 183 (2.05%) AWS Certified Developer
12 162 (1.82%) PMP
13 161 (1.81%) PMI Certification
14 155 (1.74%) Azure Certification
15 154 (1.73%) Master's Degree
16 138 (1.55%) DBS Check
17 99 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
18 96 (1.08%) CISSP
19 75 (0.84%) ISTQB
20 71 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 624 (7.00%) QA
2 284 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 166 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 133 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 127 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 107 (1.20%) GDPR
7 81 (0.91%) PMO
8 62 (0.70%) ITGC
8 62 (0.70%) NIST
9 54 (0.61%) SLA
10 41 (0.46%) MiFID
11 38 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 37 (0.41%) SOC 2
13 32 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 31 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 30 (0.34%) NCSC
16 29 (0.33%) WCAG
17 26 (0.29%) HIPAA
18 21 (0.24%) PMBOK
19 17 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,468 (16.46%) Docker
2 95 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 57 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.35%) Firmware
6 24 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
7 18 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.078%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.067%) Apache Flume
11 5 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.056%) vSphere
12 4 (0.045%) Postfix
13 2 (0.022%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.022%) KVM
13 2 (0.022%) Squid
13 2 (0.022%) Xen
14 1 (0.011%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.011%) NFS
14 1 (0.011%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1,036 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 794 (8.90%) Ansible
3 615 (6.90%) Terraform
4 279 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 231 (2.59%) Argo
6 218 (2.44%) Kustomize
7 57 (0.64%) Grafana
8 47 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.33%) Kibana
12 22 (0.25%) Puppet
13 18 (0.20%) SCCM
14 16 (0.18%) WMI
15 10 (0.11%) Nessus
16 9 (0.10%) CASB
17 7 (0.078%) Proxmox
18 6 (0.067%) HP ALM
18 6 (0.067%) Mesos
18 6 (0.067%) Oozie
Vendors
1 1,042 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 462 (5.18%) Google
3 308 (3.45%) Oracle
4 254 (2.85%) Salesforce
5 240 (2.69%) SAP
6 201 (2.25%) Solace
7 179 (2.01%) Databricks
8 161 (1.81%) Siemens
9 136 (1.53%) IBM
10 117 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 103 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 80 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 79 (0.89%) VMware
14 71 (0.80%) Sparx
15 58 (0.65%) BISAM
16 56 (0.63%) Adobe
17 50 (0.56%) Alteryx
17 50 (0.56%) MathWorks
18 46 (0.52%) Charles River
18 46 (0.52%) Workday